With your budget you would be looking at a 2010/2011 VW Beetle, which had a regular automatic transmission and not the troublesome DSG that was fitted in later models. That’s a big tick for the Beetle ...
On the whole, VWs are reliable, but this generation of Golf (which forms the basis of the Beetle) is not the greatest. Mind you, Beetle owners tend to complain of niggling problems, rather than ...